In wake of critical book, Trump calls Omarosa 'a lowlife'

Jill Colvin, Associated Press

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Omarosa Claims There's Tape of Trump Using the N-Word The ex-White House advisor and former 'Apprentice' contestant says so in her new memoir, 'Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House.' The book is set to hit shelves August 14. According to 'The Guardian,' She doesn't specify if she heard Trump use the N-word herself. But she does reportedly write George Conway is husband to Trump aide Kellyanne Conway. Manigault Newman writes that it was towards the end of her tenure at the White House that she realized the President is a racist. Excerpt from 'Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House,' via 'The Guardian' Manigault Newman's resignation from her post at the White House has been described as "abrupt." Rumors of Trump using racial slurs during taping of 'The Apprentice' In January,

Manigault Newman claims in an upcoming book, "Unhinged," that Trump used racial slurs on the set of his reality show "The Apprentice." She also says she later concluded that he is a racist and a bigot.

On Saturday, reporters asked Trump during an event at his golf club in New Jersey if he felt betrayed by Manigault Newman. He responded: "Lowlife. She's a lowlife."

Manigault Newman was a contestant on Trump's "The Apprentice" reality show and later served as a senior adviser to the president. In the book, she paints Trump as scattered, self-absorbed, misogynistic and insecure.

The book is set for release Tuesday. The White House has already slammed it as "riddled with lies and false accusations."

The Associated Press purchased a copy of the book ahead of its release. In the book, Manigault Newman claims without evidence that tapes exist of Trump using the N-word repeatedly on the reality show's set. She acknowledges she had never been able to obtain or hear the tapes but said three unnamed sources had described their contents.

FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2017, file photo, Omarosa Manigault-Newman, then an aide to President Donald Trump, watches during a meeting with parents and teachers in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. The White House is slamming a new book by ex-staffer Omarosa Manigault-Newman, calling her “a disgruntled former White House employee.” less

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FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2017, file photo, Omarosa Manigault, then-director of communications for the White House Office of Public Liaison, center, speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, before the start of President Donald Trump's news conference. Omarosa Manigault Newman says she has concluded, after years of defending Donald Trump, that he is a bigot. She writes in a new book, "I had to go through the pain of witnessing his racism with my own eyes, and hearing it with my own ears, many times, until I couldn't deny it any longer." less

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This file photo taken on Feb. 14, 2017 shows Omarosa Manigault (right), White House director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison, sitting behind President Donald Trump as he speaks during a meeting with teachers, school administrators and parents in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. less

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She alleges that Trump has exhibited signs of a "mental decline that could not be denied" and says she went as far as printing out a study linking Diet Coke consumption to dementia and strokes and putting it in his briefing stack. She also described him as a man who "loved conflict, chaos and confusion; he loved seeing people argue or fight."

Manigault Newman also alleges that Trump allies tried to buy her silence after she left the White House, offering her $15,000 a month to serve in a "senior position" on his 2020 re-election campaign along with a stringent nondisclosure agreement. She says when she turned down the offer, she received letters from Trump's lawyers telling her to stay quiet.